October 2008
4 posts
Some day, man will go to the stars...
…But until then, we still have such wonderful products of mankind as the Hubble Space Telescope, which produced this remarkable image (HubbleSite link) a while ago, and was released by the Hubble Heritage Project earlier this month:
This month’s three-dimensional-looking Hubble image shows the edge of the giant gaseous cavity within the star-forming region called NGC 3324. The...
Buddy, could you spare a digit?
How does an estimated $11trillion of national debt sound to you? We’re reaching Iceland levels of impropriety here.
BBC News reports,
The US government’s debts have ballooned so badly the National Debt Clock in New York has run out of digits to record the spiralling figure. The digital counter marks the national debt level, but when that passed the $10 trillion point last month,...
The Fairlight CMI, the neglected pioneer of...
In 1975, I had just finished highschool and was looking for something to do. My school-friend, Kim Ryrie, played me a record called “Switched on Bach” which was recorded entirely using the Moog synthesiser. I thought this was really cool - electronic music obviously had great potential.
The record sleeve had a photo of the Moog synthesiser; rack after rack of electronic modules...